NYC Winter Wine Festival

The Brooklyn-born painter used his fantasist’s gaze to define the sword & sorcery genre

“Some people are really passionate about social justice and passionate about the plant and its medicinal qualities. So you really get different motivations from different clients."

Doing the Golden Girlz is pure joy. We stand backstage like, ‘We are getting paid to have this much fun?’

You don’t have to be a Marvel uber-nerd to enjoy the latest “origin story” based movie starring Scarlett Johansson – it’s so well done, you don’t even need to know anything about Marvel to be entertained on a face-value level

In a hazy, stuck-to-the-couch state, I think I can recall giggling that this was the exact opposite of ‘performance enhancement’

There is always much complaining about how hard it is to fire city workers when they misbehave, thanks to union rules that handcuff managers. But all other agencies are in the minor leagues compared with the city's elections board.